If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. (Oscar Wilde)

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Oscar Wilde

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